
Only the names of the individual notes are different. The same notes are played in the same order in each scale - they sound identical. This scale sounds the same as the Ab harmonic minor scale, which is also a commonly used scale. Since the natural minor key is itself on the Circle of 5ths - G# minor on circle of 5ths, this means that this is a commonly used harmonic minor scale key. This harmonic minor scale is based on the natural minor scale with the same key / tonic note - G# natural minor scale. The G-sharp harmonic minor scale has 4 sharps, 1 double-sharp.
It also shows the scale degree names for all 8 notes.
The string quartet opus 105 by Dvorak opens in A-flat minor.This step shows the ascending G-sharp harmonic minor scale on the piano, treble clef and bass clef. It is also used in Frederick Loewe's score to the 1956 musical play My Fair Lady the Second Servants' Chorus is set in A-flat minor (the preceding and following choruses being a semitone lower and higher respectively). 205, is in A-flat minor, and the earlier A-flat-minor portion is written with a 7-flat key signature, but the later A-flat-minor portion is written without any key signature, and uses the necessary flats as accidentals. The first movement of Charles Koechlin's Partita for Chamber Orchestra, Op. In Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony, there is a particularly aggressive restatement of the introduction of the third movement in A-flat minor. Franz Liszt's original version of " La campanella" from Grandes études de Paganini, which was subsequently rewritten in G-sharp minor. The opening of Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird. Leoš Janáček uses it for his Violin Sonata and the organ solo of his Glagolitic Mass. Etude No.13 in Moritz Moszkowski's Études de Virtuosité, Op. The Evocación from Book I of Isaac Albéniz's Iberia. 88a, although the piece ends in A-flat Major. Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op. The first piece "Aime-moi" ("Love me") from Charles-Valentin Alkan's Trois morceaux dans le genre pathétique. Schubert's Impromptu in A♭ major actually begins in A♭ minor, though this is written as A♭ major with accidentals. The second Trio in Franz Schubert's Klavierstücke in E-flat major for Piano, D946/2. 110 (although the key signature of this section uses only 6 flats, not 7). An early section of the last movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. The Funeral March in Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. Some well-known uses of the key in classical and romantic piano music include: Music in A-flat minor Īlthough A-flat minor occurs in modulation in works in other keys, it is only rarely used as the principal key of a piece of music. Audio playback is not supported in your browser.